Yearly Archive for 2009

: 2009

More and more TV series to report. A few good reissues: “Braveheart,” “Gladiator” and the original “M*A*S*H.” New films: “Earth,” “State of Play.” Usual rules apply: synopses are taken from the press …

Big releases this week: “Hannah Montana: The Movie,” “The Last House on the Left” remake, “Tyson.” BD reissues: “The Last Starfighter,” “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” And more TV series than you can …

I received a press release on five new Sony Pictures BD releases this month. I was only interested in three of them, so I requested review copies. Compared to their DVD cousins, they are hardly worth …

Everyone wishes they had some kind of power. The ability to fly. Or to read minds. A recent movie capitalizes on this by creating a world where telekinesis and mind control are real and the government …

Where there is a video game or cartoon, there is a piece ready to be adapted to film. So many anime video games and TV shows have already been turned to film, that it was just a matter of time before …

Many of you know who Joss Whedon is. He’s the brain responsible for “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” “Angel” and “Firefly.” After several false starts, his latest offering, “Dollhouse: Season 1,” drops on …

It’s hard to believe that the Turtles are now 25 years old, at least in the sense that creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their first comic book back then. Now comes a box set of their first three live-action films, plus the recent “TMNT” CGI full-length cartoon. I hadn’t watched any of the films in years, but they still hold up fairly well.
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